One by-product of Ed Schultz‘s attack on Laura Ingraham, and subsequent apology and suspension, is that it gave his former MSNBC colleague, Keith Olbermann, an opportunity to answer for some of his own past wrongdoing. As he tweeted condemnation of Schultz’s remarks, he was confronted with some of his own. His responses provided a neat [...]

Tuesday saw yet another chapter in the ongoing feud between the guy who makes Nazi references, and the other guy who makes Nazi references. Keith Olbermann responded, via Twitter, to a post by Glenn Beck’s The Blaze.com, which was, itself, a response to Olbermann’s viral video attack on Beck. It was only a couple of [...]

The Daily Caller has published the latest of its Daily Journolist Leaks, and this time, the supposed liberal cabal is eating one of their own. Countdown host Keith Olbermann is the subject of this installment, in which the J-listers trash him as “sexist” and “misogynist,” mainly over his treatment of Carrie Prejean and Hillary Clinton. While I disagree with the Daily Caller’s publication of the emails, and their petulant handling thereof, this round also illustrates what pisses me off about Journolist and Olbermann.

Since the public apparently loves events where scantily-clad women walk around in silence for two hours and then get 30 seconds to talk about how much they love world peace, the Miss USA Pageant is still being talked about two days later. The pageant’s runner-up, Miss Oklahoma Morgan Elizabeth Woolard, visited Fox and Friends this morning to talk about how unfair it was that she had to articulate an opinion on an actual issue, and not, like winner Rima Fakih, “Facebook and MySpace.”

Where have you gone Carrie Prejean? Our nation turns its lonely eyes to you. During last night’s Miss USA pageant, Miss Oklahoma USA Morgan Elizabeth Woolard was asked by actor Oscar Nunez (from NBC’s The Office for her thoughts on the controversial. Arizona Immigration law.) In a rather remarkable turn, Woolard made clear her support of the anti-immigration law in a nuanced and unoffensive way. Perhaps she should run for office?

This is officially a trend: following in the footsteps of Carrie Prejean, “Miss Beverly Hills” Lauren Ashley—apparently a real title, though the city of Beverly Hills has distanced itself from her—has come out in defense of all that is moral and just in the world and against the looming menace of gay marriage.

I know, you’re probably thinking what I was, “He’s not actually calling her a tool, is he?” In a tease to commercial on last night’s Countdown, Keith Olbermann did a short meditation on how “Former Half-Governor Sarah Palin” could end up being a tool for Republicans, a tool for Tea Partiers, and a tool for Democrats in the midterms. Had he left it at that, he would have completed a did-he-or-didn’t-he, deniable slam on Palin. Instead, much like his Carrie Prejean self-love slam, he just couldn’t resist hanging a lantern on it.

When Oprah asked Sarah Palin about Levi Johnston’s Playgirl shoot, she said, “I call it porn.” But is it? The NSFW pictures prove that the pictures don’t include any frontal nudity. The pictures of the 19-year old are no more explicit than what you’d see on an episode of Nip/Tuck and less (homo)erotic than an Ultimate Fight Championship match. But they’re sort of sad.

Yikes. Funny or Die sent out their weekly newsletter today with this featured video: Carrie Prejean Sex Tape — aka, “The exclusive never before seen video that Carrie Prejean has been trying to keep you from seeing.” Well, that was worth a click to see what they did with it.

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Is Carrie Prejean really, “Still Standing,” as her book title suggests? Because to MSNBC, she just may be in fact sitting down, or apparently being picked up in an embrace by a jilted ex. Or, of course, taping herself…

Carrie Prejean + Donald Trump = publicity-hungry awkwardness. Trump weighed in on the Prejean-Larry King interview and near-walk-off last night on HLN’s Showbiz Tonight.

Guess what – he made it sexual.

When you agree to an interview with CNN’s Larry King, you better come correct, because that guy will nail you – with softballs.

Author and preachy solo sex tape performer Carrie Prejean found that out last night the hard way, as she fell prey to the ‘tough’ questions from King and almost walked off set.

Last night on Countdown, Keith Olbermann did another in a long series of segments castigating former Miss California Carrie Prejean, but he added a little something extra at the end. He signs off the segment, in which he discusses the sex tape that features Prejean “by herself,” with a two, then three, fingered “Girl Scout” salute. Where to begin?

Carrie Prejean gave an exclusive interview to her favorite cable news program – Sean Hannity‘s Fox News show – last night, and she had a lot to talk about.

Prejean has a tell-all book out this week, and there are rumors of a sex tape floating around. Yeah, a sex tape.

It’s the weekend, which means it’s time to separate the chumps from the champs in Mediaite’s “Winners and Losers” — our scorecard of who rocked and who flopped in the week’s headlines. The contenders include: President Bush, adding “motivational speaker” to his resume, Sarah Palin posting an online resume, and Jay Leno, who might be wise to start updating his resume.

Because even calendars — calendars, of all things! — have to be politicized, somehow: the Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute has put together a calendar highlighting one conservative woman for each month of the year. Carrie Prejean and Michele Bachman are on the list; don’t you want to know the rest?

Fox News reporter James Rosen did not get such a warm welcome when attempting to broadcast live from the Summit earlier this afternoon (his contempt for the attendee “crowding” his space and asking for his removal is hard to miss.) This avoidance of cameras (Fox or otherwise) seems to be a theme for the Value Voters people — according to Politico not even Bill O’Reilly’s address will not be open to cameras.

We can’t blame The Economist for replaying 100-day coverage because, let’s face it, the American news media was was a little premature and extravagant. The Economist’s ‘Crunch time’ cover is playful, and handsome to boot. And we especially love the baby blue, because nothing says ‘crunch time’ like baby blue.

At least when it comes to page views. The New York Times‘ Brian Stelter is reporting on the speculation that the Washington Post fired columnist Dan Froomkin because his column’s page views were low.

Page views have long been the metric of success at online institutions but thus far mainstream papers have been mostly able to avoid pandering to the click-through. No longer, it would seem.

The Vancouver Sun reports on an explosion of racially-charged slurs in the comments section of Free Republic, a popular conservative blog: “‘A typical street whore.’ ‘A bunch of ghetto thugs.’ ‘Ghetto street trash.’ ‘Wonder when she will get her first abortion.’ These are a small selection of some of the racially-charged comments posted to the conservative ‘Free Republic’ blog Thursday, aimed at U.S. President Barack Obama’s 11-year-old daughter Malia.”